Donald Trump - 1989 - Trader Vics is 'Tacky' - General Tiki

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Tue, Oct 9, 2007 10:02 AM The following is from a 1989 New York Times article, about Donald Trump's decision to close the New York Trader Vic's bar, then located in the Plaza Hotel. Trader Vic's, the Polynesian bar in the Plaza that has played host to generations of moneyed gadabouts, prep school students on R&R and fans of its Samoan Fog Cutters, has "gotten tacky" and will be closed, the hotel's owner, Donald J. Trump, said yesterday. "Trader Vic's does not fit in with the image of the hotel that I want to achieve," Mr. Trump said. ... President Richard M. Nixon said it was one of his favorite restaurants, and he dined there during a visit to New York in 1972. Nixon Laments Its Closing "My entire family will be very sorry to see it close," Mr. Nixon said yesterday through a spokesman. "It was always our daughters' favorite restaurant, and it quickly became mine too." The article states that the image of this Trader Vics took a blow when actor Yul Brynner sued Trader Vics for $3 million, claiming that he caught trichinosis from undercooked spareribs. Mr Brynner may have been following in the steps of actress Gina Lollobrigida, who successfully sued Trader Vic's for $90,000 (she wanted $10 million) from a 1980 incident, after biting into a shrimp and damaging a tooth on a 'brown, pebble-like substance.' Trump article http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DE7DE1539F936A15752C0A96F948260 Lollobrigida article http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E7D91139F932A25752C1A962948260

The following is from a 1989 New York Times article, about Donald Trump's decision to close the New York Trader Vic's bar, then located in the Plaza Hotel.

Trader Vic's, the Polynesian bar in the Plaza that has played host to generations of moneyed gadabouts, prep school students on R&R and fans of its Samoan Fog Cutters, has "gotten tacky" and will be closed, the hotel's owner, Donald J. Trump, said yesterday.

"Trader Vic's does not fit in with the image of the hotel that I want to achieve," Mr. Trump said.

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President Richard M. Nixon said it was one of his favorite restaurants, and he dined there during a visit to New York in 1972. Nixon Laments Its Closing

"My entire family will be very sorry to see it close," Mr. Nixon said yesterday through a spokesman. "It was always our daughters' favorite restaurant, and it quickly became mine too."

The article states that the image of this Trader Vics took a blow when actor Yul Brynner sued Trader Vics for $3 million, claiming that he caught trichinosis from undercooked spareribs.

Mr Brynner may have been following in the steps of actress Gina Lollobrigida, who successfully sued Trader Vic's for $90,000 (she wanted $10 million) from a 1980 incident, after biting into a shrimp and damaging a tooth on a 'brown, pebble-like substance.'

Trump article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DE7DE1539F936A15752C0A96F948260

Lollobrigida article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E7D91139F932A25752C1A962948260

Post #337385 by ikitnrev on Tue, Oct 9, 2007 10:02 AM

"My entire family will be very sorry to see it close," Mr. Nixon said yesterday through a spokesman. "It was always our daughters' favorite restaurant, and it quickly became mine too."